So much this. I've tried multiple times to grok it and it just slid straight back out of my brain leaving me with the same puddle of syntax soup I started with.

So much this. I've tried multiple times to grok it and it just slid straight back out of my brain leaving me with the same puddle of syntax soup I started with. I've never encountered anything else even close to this bad. Not to mention that build config is probably the absolute last place you want a weird unreadable language nobody knows, because it tends to be touched so rarely that nobody builds up any familiarity with it.